Sentences with phrase «with sleight of hand»

With sleight of hand, she lays out a tapestry of visual trickery, reconstructed artifacts, and misinterpreted histories.

With sleight of hand ease, they can be visually deceptive, but they don't aspire to all out trickery.

When a magician fools you with sleight of hand, it is not your vision that is to blame.

With a sleight of hand, however — the major grouse of Harold Smith's revolt and anger in Blue Collar Lawman, his unpublished book — the British turned things round for the North.

But Item 19 is often calculated with a sleight of hand that would make a magician proud, with the numbers spun to put the system in the best possible light.

Not exact matches

«Faith is a device of self - delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.

We are now witnessing the believer sleight - of - hand trick trying to equate «supernatural» with «god.»

Yet (with a little sleight of hand that comes from peeking ahead and thinking of Frye's basic distinction), we can already sense that one text is going to emphasize centrifugal meanings and the other, centripetal meanings.

As he describes his life, it sounds like a Vegas floor show, complete with Bobby Berosini and his dancing orangutans, Sigfried and Roy and a naked sleight - of - hand artist.

According to the NDP, «we are keeping a voters register fraught with many controversies and susceptible to all forms of human ruse and sleight of hand» insisting that «an insertion of scanned staple pin - marked still pictures into the register is irregular, illegal and unconscionable by the EC's own regulation (voter registration) CI 72.»

She even tries to put a patriotic slant on it, with guttural calls for the strength of the British economy - a political sleight of hand that seems a little cheap and more than a little unfair.

Attorney Michael Hrab — a former neighbor — also warmed up the crowd with a bit of theatrics and a sleight - of - hand magic gag that he used to jab other Democratic candidates.

But I remain unconvinced by your article, because it sought first to uncharitably discredit the CutTaxTo10p.com campaign, with a linguistic sleight of hand, and then somewhat ducked the central point of this debate, which Nigel Lawson understood in the 1980s.

Oddly, though, physicists have come up with a bit of theoretical sleight of hand to retrieve a speck of information that's been dropped into a black hole.

This is more techno - babble with added sleight of hand trying to make a connection to colloidal particles which constitute 5.1 % of the silver.

And yet the final act feels like a cop - out, resolved with a magical - realist sleight of hand that cheats the viewer of a proper resolution while pushing the characters to the limits of credibility.

The problem for Mr. Krieger is that his film has been trying to dazzle us with all manner of sleight of hand and hokum and now undertakes the construction of a conventional romance.

Krieger tossed his «worthless» disk into a trash can and threatened Ethan: «Try any sleight - of - hand with my money and I'll cut your throat.»

At the end of the counter, the ubiquitous Tricycle Man / magician privately amuses himself with another sleight - of - hand trick: he removes the saltshaker cap, pours salt into his left hand fist, lifts both hands and waves the salt goodbye, then grabs thin air with his right fist and distributes salt on his salad.

Don't try to compensate with digital sleight of hand.

One of the most renowned card magicians of all time, Richard Turner astounds audiences around the world with his legendary sleight of hand.

Dealt Not Rated Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95 % Available on Disc and Streaming For decades, Richard Turner has been one of the premier up close magicians at the infamous Magic Castle in Hollywood, wowing audiences with his unbelievable sleight of hand.

Whether the film would work with a straightforward timeline is uncertain, but Muccino's decision works in the film's favour — by encouraging a guessing game it conceals the problems of its plot in a sleight of hand magic trick.

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Because with magic, human nature is such that we are always trying to «catch» the sleight of hand.

When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.

to fill up a passenger train (my nod to «The Darjeeling Limited «-RRB- and keep any people - watchers entertained, but watch for the deft sleight of hand, as with all Wes Anderson films, there is more going on under the surface than meets the eye.

With his characters talking incessantly about sleight of hand, you'd think Leterrier might employ that particular tactic on his own.

Employing sleight of hand, some fast talking, and a lot of tall tales, it exaggerates the legend until the illusion takes on a life of its own, turning into the promised «fever dream» that, while admittedly stuffed with some truly excellent musical setpieces, has something sinister at its core.

Ever the more cunning, the horseman finds their religions transparent, and bests them all with sleight - of - hand.

In addition to liner notes by British film critic Jason Solomons and a feature - length audio commentary track with writer Lothian and director Metzstein, there's the movie's theatrical trailer, a single deleted scene and a couple of featurettes in which Lance and Cilenti showcase two respective bits of sleight - of - hand that their characters employ.

Director / co-writer Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) sets a very intriguing premise with precision and occasional sleight of hand, then can't quite capitalize on the expectations he so skillfully crafted.

Set at the tail end of the 1980s, it's a what - if piece of can - do entrepreneurial spirit mixed with Wall Street greed crossed with intelligently underhanded sleight of hand.

With only one actual bonus feature to speak of — the six - part behind - the - scenes featurette «The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand — and a glorified photo gallery («The Art of The Prestige») acting purely as supplemental fodder, I feel genuinely cheated by the lack of behind - the - scenes material included in this single - disc effort.

He also pulls off a little sleight of hand to assuage a troubled boy who claims he's been seeing visions of a mule with burning red eyes.

He blithely flits from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again with such an agile sleight - of - hand that the two eventually merge into a surprisingly coherent amalgam.

There's more than meets the eye with this lesson using art and magic to reveal literature to your students With just a sleight of handwith this lesson using art and magic to reveal literature to your students With just a sleight of handWith just a sleight of hand,...

Audiences are confronted with clichés, distortions, and brilliant sleights of hand that force us to go beyond the lampoon and shift the lens through which we perceive race in order to confront our own bias.

Steinhauer juggles political and personal loyalties with a master storyteller's sleight of hand.»

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But some of this sleight of hand with sales numbers has to help Amazon, as well.

Sternbergh brilliantly combines narrative sleight - of - hand with an ability to create flesh - and - blood characters who bring humor and a resilient humanity to their torn - asunder world.

Leah Randall / Jessie Carr leaps off the pages in this «Roaring Twenties» period piece that drips with bathtub gin, truck - size cars, outsize personalities, money, high stakes and enough twists, turns and sleights of hand to keep one reading late into the night... Simply put, this book is FUN.»

In other words, instead of adjusting the conforming loan limit to reflect what is actually happening in the marketplace, the government is trying to prop - up the housing sector with a little financial sleight - of - hand.

The trouble is, the way the human brain has evolved over so many thousands of years means that, when we are faced with a difficult question, it will perform a little sleight of hand.

The wild card here is whether Warren Lichtenstein will screw us little unitholders with a creeping takeunder at below full value or some other sleight of hand.

This one - of - a-kind performance combines mind - boggling illusions and sleight - of - hand tricks with legends of Hawaiian demigods expressed in hula and chant.

Backwards compatibility is nice and all, but the idea that it can make up for these new consoles coming out rapidly with games that don't work — or don't work as well — on older hardware and somehow keep everyone included is just some marketing sleight of hand.

The second is of artist as magician, conjuring life in paint with a vaudevillian sleight of hand.

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY Claxons (four - person exhibition, curated by Walter Robinson), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY Grey Area, New York, NY The Queen's Feathers (one - person exhibition), John Tevis Gallery, Paris France 2011 Peacocks and Bottles (one - person exhibition) Organized by Nana Kipiani in conjunction with Artisterium, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia Forever and Never, One More Time (two - person exhibition), Season, Seattle, WA Color Theory, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Birdbaths and Birdhouses (one person exhibition), Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY The Visible Vagina, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art & David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Modern & Contemporary Ceramics, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY Bazvalon (one person exhibition), Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Momenta Art (one person exhibition), Brooklyn, NY French Kiss, organized by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris The Demoiselles Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (Momenta Art booth) 2006 The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY 2005 Picture Window, (site specific, city organized), Baltimore, Maryland 2004 Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland College Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 2003 The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY Sleight of Hand, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Kismet, The Work Space, New York, NY 2001 Bad Touch, Lump gallery / projects, Raleigh, NC (also traveled to Keith Talent Gallery, London, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, Space (1026, Philidelphia & UIMA, Chicago) Beautiful You, curated by Larry Krone, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY Your Humble Servant the Genius (two person exhibition with Rob Wynne), Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY Nijinsky, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1999 The Fin - de-Siécle Salon, curated by J. A. Poisson, P.S. 122, New York, NY 1998 Re: Duchamp (organized by Mike Bidlo), Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (one person exhibition) The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Cadmium Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY